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http://www.lsoft.com/images/listserv_small.gifAre we being wilfully blind about the transformation that's needed in scholarly publishing?http://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;8b9a82e6.1905
From: &lt;Toby.GREEN@oecd.org&gt;<br>Date: Fri, 24 May 2019 08:39:30 +0000<br><br>Lib-license members might be interested in my new post on Medium. It looks<br>at Transformative Agreements and wonders whether they will lead to<br>affordable open access in scholarly publishing.<br><br>https://medium.com/@TobyABGreen/are-we-being-wilfully-blind-about-the-transformation-thats-needed-in-scholarly-publishing-d0bfb61d1f05<br><br>As ever, looking forward to feedback and discussion.<br><br>Toby Green
2019-05-24T09:00:57-04:00LIBLICENSEhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;8b9a82e6.1905Re: Controversial scholarship and gold OA in the humanitieshttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;41acf34f.1905
From: &quot;Jim O'Donnell&quot; &lt;jod@asu.edu&gt;<br>Date: Thu, 23 May 2019 19:57:36 -0700<br><br>I think most humanists, occasional visitors to a given journal, will not<br>readily grasp the difference between free-to-read (you can read without<br>subscribing or paying) and open access (you can read without subscribing or<br>paying). The various OA pages on the T&amp;F website did not clarify the<br>distinction. I think that *I* understand, but I’ve been an OA publisher<br>myself for 29 years and still needed it explained. [...]
2019-05-23T23:06:44-04:00LIBLICENSEhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;41acf34f.1905New report on social and behavioral science research impact metricshttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;763f8d7e.1905
From: Olivia Butze &lt;Olivia.Butze@sagepub.com&gt;<br>Date: Thu, 23 May 2019 18:02:04 +0000<br><br>Subject: New report on social and behavioral science research impact<br>metrics<br><br>SAGE Publishing recently released a new report (sagepub.com/sageimpactreport)<br>that explores how to improve social and behavioral science impact metrics<br>(moving beyond citation count). Based on a workshop with representatives<br>from Clarivate Analytics, Altmetric, Google Scholar, social science groups,<br>and more, the report establishes imperatives and recommended actions such<br>as: [...]
2019-05-23T22:23:26-04:00LIBLICENSEhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;763f8d7e.1905Reminder: Join us for the Open-source Bazaar at SSP next Wednesdayhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;cf0d3ef3.1905
From: Emily Packer &lt;e.packer@elifesciences.org&gt;<br>Date: Thu, 23 May 2019 15:23:02 +0100<br><br>[With apologies again for cross-posting]<br><br>Hi All,<br><br>There are just a few days left to register for this interactive SSP<br>pre-conference seminar on Wednesday, May 29: 'Open-source Bazaar: Owned by<br>the community, ensuring independent, open infrastructure in the age of<br>acquisitions'.<br><br>With critical infrastructure such as hosting platforms and manuscript<br>submission systems being acquired by large commercial publishers, smaller<br>and society publishers wonder what other curve balls the future will bring.<br>For example, will end-to-end workflow solutions lock them in? Or will such<br>monopolies lock them out from participation? [...]
2019-05-23T22:22:05-04:00LIBLICENSEhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;cf0d3ef3.1905Licensed resources and external Quality Matters reviewershttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;a37b2f56.1905
From: &quot;Northrup, Lori&quot; &lt;lanorthr@samford.edu&gt;<br>Date: Thu, 23 May 2019 19:38:26 +0000<br><br>Hi,<br><br>I understand that external Quality Matters reviewers need to experience<br>online course content in the same way that students will experience the<br>content. When instructors link from online courses to authenticated<br>library resources, we require a log in. External reviewers will not have<br>such a log in, and most of our licenses do not allow access by virtual walk<br>in users. How do you handle providing access to licensed resources for<br>such external online course reviewers? We prefer that faculty link from<br>these courses to library full text [...]
2019-05-23T22:24:41-04:00LIBLICENSEhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;a37b2f56.1905Re: Unavailable in your country messages?http://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;d008b9eb.1905
From: &quot;Sanfilippo, Tony&quot; &lt;sanfilippo.16@osu.edu&gt;<br>Date: Thu, 23 May 2019 01:21:05 +0000<br><br>Authors benefit from these restrictions. I don’t think publishers do.<br><br>My default is to ask for all rights, but we’re kind of getting into the big<br>leagues with our trade book program and when you’re dealing with creators<br>who are actually eking out a living with their work, they tend to be very<br>savvy about their rights. And when you’re working with an agent, well then<br>all bets are off. [...]
2019-05-23T22:13:00-04:00LIBLICENSEhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;d008b9eb.1905Re: Controversial scholarship and gold OA in the humanitieshttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;60b172ff.1905
From: &quot;Mcmillan, Jennifer&quot; &lt;Jennifer.McMillan@tandf.co.uk&gt;<br>Date: Thu, 23 May 2019 10:09:29 +0000<br><br>Hi Jim,<br><br>On our website, a green icon indicates free-to-read content.<br><br>APC Open Access articles are highlighted with an orange icon, such as the<br>one here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00020184.2018.1519338<br><br>I hope this clarifies things for you.<br><br>With best wishes,<br><br>Jennifer McMillan<br><br>Director of Marketing: Content &amp; Communications<br><br>Taylor &amp; Francis Group [...]
2019-05-23T22:20:39-04:00LIBLICENSEhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;60b172ff.1905Call for contributions and registration open for OASPA 2019 Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishinghttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;a2db56b1.1905
From: Bernie Folan &lt;bernie.folan@oaspa.org&gt;<br>Date: Thu, 23 May 2019 09:15:00 +0200<br><br>*** with apologies for cross-posting***<br><br>Now in its 11th year, the OASPA annual conference is a major scholarly<br>publishing conference that brings the open access community together to<br>discuss new developments and innovations in scholarly publishing, and unite<br>in our shared goal to enable research around the world to be openly<br>accessible. [...]
2019-05-23T22:19:10-04:00LIBLICENSEhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;a2db56b1.1905Re: Controversial scholarship and gold OA in the humanitieshttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;2e9d60f3.1905
From: Tanja Lundqvist &lt;tanja.lundqvist@liu.se&gt;<br>Date: Thu, 23 May 2019 06:28:39 +0000<br><br>Hello,<br><br>One way to tell the difference between full access and T&amp;F open access/open<br>select is that whereas the Voynich article has the green Full access symbol<br>that you mention, Open Access articles, have an orange lock symbol and the<br>text Open access next to it. [...]
2019-05-23T22:17:38-04:00LIBLICENSEhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;2e9d60f3.1905Re: Controversial scholarship and gold OA in the humanitieshttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;11d0644f.1905
From: David Groenewegen &lt;david.groenewegen@monash.edu&gt;<br>Date: Thu, 23 May 2019 11:24:12 +1000<br><br>I agree with Jim that this is probably confusing to pretty much<br>everyone, but note that Unpaywall was not fooled. I recently turned on<br>&quot;OA Nerd Mode&quot; in the Chrome extension which &quot;Color-code the unlock tab<br>to show whether fulltext is Green, Gold, or Bronze open access&quot; and in<br>this case the tab is Bronze. Impressive. [...]
2019-05-23T22:15:45-04:00LIBLICENSEhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;11d0644f.1905Re: Unavailable in your country messages?http://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;eee83f0a.1905
From: &quot;Jim O'Donnell&quot; &lt;jod@asu.edu&gt;<br>Date: Wed, 22 May 2019 17:21:17 -0700<br><br>The evidence in this case suggests a more complicated story. Amazon did<br>tell me that German e-books were unavailable five years ago because of<br>publisher decisions; at that point there were *no* German language e-books<br>on Amazon.de that could be purchased by an American. I complained a couple<br>of years ago again and they pointed me to a URL for German Kindle books.<br>Using that URL, I can find them now; but normal searching on the Amazon<br>site does not turn them up. What changed? (Bear in mind that [...]
2019-05-22T20:44:55-04:00LIBLICENSEhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;eee83f0a.1905PLOS Journals announce Open Peer Reviewhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;966a9307.1905
From: Sara Rouhi &lt;srouhi@plos.org&gt;<br>Date: Wed, 22 May 2019 16:19:04 +0000<br><br>Hi colleagues and friends,<br><br>Some big news today! PLOS Journals are now open for published peer review.<br><br>Starting today, ALL PLOS journals will offer authors the option to publish<br>their peer review history alongside their accepted manuscript. We’ve been<br>excited to make this announcement in our commitment more open publication<br>process. [...]
2019-05-22T16:17:18-04:00LIBLICENSEhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;966a9307.1905The OA interviews: Arianna Becerril-García, Chair of AmeliCAhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;1eb261cc.1905
From: Richard Poynder &lt;richard.poynder@gmail.com&gt;<br>Date: Wed, 22 May 2019 16:18:04 +0100<br><br>A professor in the School of Political and Social Sciences at the<br>Autonomous University of the State of Mexico (UAEM), Arianna<br>Becerril-García is also the Executive Director of Redalyc, the Network of<br>Scientific Journals from Latin America and the Caribbean, Spain and<br>Portugal. Redalyc is a regional open access portal for the social sciences<br>and humanities that indexes 1,305 local journals and hosts the full texts<br>of more than 650,000 articles. [...]
2019-05-22T16:16:30-04:00LIBLICENSEhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;1eb261cc.1905eLife announces phase two of the Reproducible Document Stack projecthttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;6d7ae355.1905
From: Emily Packer &lt;e.packer@elifesciences.org&gt;<br>Date: Wed, 22 May 2019 14:38:18 +0100<br><br>[With apologies for cross-posting]<br><br>Hi All,<br><br>eLife is pleased to announce today the next phase of the Reproducible<br>Document Stack (RDS) project, in collaboration with Substance and Stencila.<br><br>The RDS project involves the development of an open-source technology stack<br>aimed at enabling researchers to publish reproducible manuscripts through<br>online journals. [...]
2019-05-22T16:15:15-04:00LIBLICENSEhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;6d7ae355.1905Re: Controversial scholarship and gold OA in the humanitieshttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;3eece12.1905
From: &quot;Jim O'Donnell&quot; &lt;jod@asu.edu&gt;<br>Date: Tue, 21 May 2019 19:13:50 -0700<br><br>Thanks for this clarification! If I go to the journal site this evening (<br>https://www.tandfonline.com/action/showAxaArticles?journalCode=yros20)<br>there's nothing to indicate that the green check-mark for open access is<br>temporary or in any way different from APC-paid OA (which the journal does<br>explicitly offer). The article has been viewed by 188,000 incredulous<br>individuals. When not available OA, it will be available for purchase for<br>$43. I think some confusion on the part of readers is understandable. [...]
2019-05-22T16:14:21-04:00LIBLICENSEhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;3eece12.1905Re: Unavailable in your country messages?http://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;295c888c.1905
From: JJE Esposito &lt;jjohneman@gmail.com&gt;<br>Date: Tue, 21 May 2019 21:56:50 -0400<br><br>This is not a publisher issue. It is an author issue. Authors routinely<br>withhold some rights (for books) in their negotiations with publishers.<br>This is only natural, as most book sales (still) are in paper and paper<br>distribution has clear geographical issues. The best publisher for a book<br>in the UK may not be the best publisher in the U.S. Authors instruct their<br>representatives to find the best publisher for each territory. Digital<br>rights are bundled with print rights. I have never known a publisher who<br>did not attempt [...]
2019-05-21T22:06:04-04:00LIBLICENSEhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;295c888c.1905Springer Nature Encourages Preprint Sharinghttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;acffb118.1905
From: Ann Shumelda Okerson &lt;aokerson@gmail.com &lt;asokerson@gmail.com&gt;&gt;<br>Date: Tue, 21 May 2019 14:19:44 -0400<br><br>Recognizing the benefits, we move from merely supporting the use of<br>preprint servers to promoting it.<br>&quot;...we are now pleased to announce an updated policy encouraging preprint<br>sharing for Springer Nature journals &lt;http://go.nature.com/2hpn0nh&gt;. This<br>intends to remove ambiguity on two important points. First, we now make it<br>clear that authors may choose any licence for preprints, including Creative<br>Commons licences. Licensing choice will not impede consideration at a<br>Springer Nature journal, but authors should bear in mind that it could<br>affect sharing, adaptation and reuse of the [...]
2019-05-21T21:34:50-04:00LIBLICENSEhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;acffb118.1905Call for Proposals-Diversity & Inclusivity in Collection Building - July 11, 2019http://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;4d494660.1905
From: &quot;Divittorio, Katy&quot; &lt;KATY.DIVITTORIO@ucdenver.edu&gt;<br>Date: Tue, 21 May 2019 16:51:37 +0000<br><br>**Please excuse cross postings**<br><br>Are you working on a project to acquire more diverse or inclusive resources<br>for your library? Are you integrating diversity or inclusivity into<br>Collection Management or Technical Services at your library? Have you<br>found a way to make Open Educational Resources accessible to students and<br>faculty? Do you have other programs, projects or ideas about diversity and<br>inclusivity in collection building? If so, please consider submitting a<br>proposal for the Diversity and Inclusivity in Collection Building workshop<br>&lt;https://forms.gle/DmcNKT1bbaBSQSok7&gt; co-sponsored by the CO Alliance of<br>Research [...]
2019-05-21T21:33:42-04:00LIBLICENSEhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;4d494660.1905Open Book Publishers’ statement on Knowledge Unlatched and the Open Research Libraryhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;42160de0.1905
From: Ann Shumelda Okerson &lt;aokerson@gmail.com &lt;asokerson@gmail.com&gt;&gt;<br>Date: Tue, 21 May 2019 21:05:41 -0400<br><br>Of possible interest:<br><br>&quot;On 16 May 2019, Knowledge Unlatched announced the beta launch of a new<br>hosting platform for Open Access books, the Open Research Library (ORL).<br>Our books are a prominent part of this nascent project, both on the website<br>and in the marketing associated with the launch<br>&lt;https://publishingperspectives.com/2019/05/sven-fund-knowledge-unlatched-open-research-library-open-access-2019/&gt;,<br>and this, together with Knowledge Unlatched’s claim that they are ‘working<br>with publishers and libraries worldwide’<br>&lt;http://knowledgeunlatched.org/2019/05/knowledge-unlatched-and-partners-launch-open-research-library/&gt;,<br>might give the impression that we are actively participating in and<br>endorsing the platform. However this is not the case: [...]
2019-05-21T21:36:14-04:00LIBLICENSEhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;42160de0.1905Re: Controversial scholarship and gold OA in the humanitieshttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;fa574672.1905
From: &quot;Mcmillan, Jennifer&quot; &lt;Jennifer.McMillan@tandf.co.uk&gt;<br>Date: Tue, 21 May 2019 12:30:01 +0000<br><br>Hello Jim,<br><br>We appreciate the interest in this article but wanted to point out that<br>this was not published open access.<br><br>It is a subscription article which was set as free to access for a short<br>period of time immediately after publication and before the current debate<br>began. [...]
2019-05-21T21:32:20-04:00LIBLICENSEhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;fa574672.1905Re: Controversial scholarship and gold OA in the humanitieshttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;393a5cc5.1905
From: Danny Kingsley &lt;danny@dannykingsley.com&gt;<br>Date: Tue, 21 May 2019 18:10:33 +1000<br><br>Veracity or otherwise of the content of the article, the real issue is the<br>bad press this will be for open access advocates. There is already<br>suspicion amongst many in the arts and humanities, and this is only going<br>to provide support for those who think OA is vanity publishing. [...]
2019-05-21T21:31:06-04:00LIBLICENSEhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;393a5cc5.1905Re: Unavailable in your country messages?http://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;f72f61c.1905
From: &quot;Jim O'Donnell&quot; &lt;jod@asu.edu&gt;<br>Date: Mon, 20 May 2019 20:14:44 -0700<br><br>Transborder e-books have been a problem for some years. For a long time,<br>Amazon refused to sell European e-books to Americans flat out, but they<br>have since loosened up in a limited way that I have not seen them<br>advertise. The link<br>https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=lp_7735162011_hi_3?rh=n%3A133140011%2Cn%3A%21133141011%2Cn%3A154606011%2Cn%3A7735160011&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1558408037<br>takes<br>you to a page that allows you a menu of foreign *languages* in which it is<br>possible to order Kindle books. NOT ALL TITLES are foreign-published,<br>however. For German, at least, I can attest that many are from German<br>publishers, but random tests elsewhere show [...]
2019-05-21T21:29:19-04:00LIBLICENSEhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;f72f61c.1905Job Posting - Acquisitions Librarian, Brandeis Universityhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;82358da.1905
From: Alexis Scanzani &lt;ascanzani@brandeis.edu&gt;<br>Date: Mon, 20 May 2019 16:32:56 -0400<br><br>The Brandeis Library is currently seeking candidates for the position<br>of Acquisitions<br>Librarian<br>&lt;https://careers.brandeis.edu/psp/CAREERS/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM.HRS_CE.GBL?Page=HRS_CE_JOB_DTL&amp;Action=A&amp;JobOpeningId=528572&amp;SiteId=1&amp;PostingSeq=1&gt;.<br>At Brandeis University, our mission and history are rooted in the pursuit<br>of social justice, thus we aim to include this value in all that we do. We<br>are seeking candidates with a variety of social identities, including those<br>who have been underrepresented in higher education, who possess skills that<br>spark innovation and who are committed to building, engaging with, and<br>sustaining a pluralistic, unified, and just campus community. [...]
2019-05-20T22:50:37-04:00LIBLICENSEhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;82358da.1905Free webinars from Ingenta - with Maverick, Portico and Zapnitohttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;3206256e.1905
From: Mike Barough &lt;Mike.Barough@ingenta.com&gt;<br>Date: Mon, 20 May 2019 10:19:29 +0000<br><br>- apologies for cross-posting –<br><br>After a great webinar with TrendMD, Ingenta are pleased to announce more<br>**FREE** webinars which may be of interest to publishers, libraries,<br>researchers and those from the scholarly and academic communities. Please<br>find details to register below:<br><br>1. Ingenta Webinar – Maverick Discuss Open Access and Plan S (1 hour).<br>*** Please note this has been revised *** [...]
2019-05-20T22:49:40-04:00LIBLICENSEhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;3206256e.1905Re: Controversial scholarship and gold OA in the humanitieshttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;e5f2cac1.1905
From: Ari Belenkiy &lt;ari.belenkiy@gmail.com&gt;<br>Date: Sun, 19 May 2019 20:34:17 -0700<br><br>It is obviously an outstanding article - one can just applaud Gerard<br>Cheshire for this remarkable achievement.<br><br>The cowardly reaction by the University of Bristol is shameful.<br><br>Ari Belenkiy<br><br>Vancouver BC<br>Canada<br><br>On Sun, May 19, 2019 at 12:09 PM LIBLICENSE &lt;liblicense@gmail.com&gt; wrote:<br><br>&gt; From: &quot;Jim O'Donnell&quot; &lt;jod@asu.edu&gt;<br>&gt; Date: Fri, 17 May 2019 21:56:34 -0700<br>&gt;<br>&gt; An article published three weeks ago in the peer-reviewed Taylor and<br>&gt; Francis journal *Romance Studies* is taking heavy fire from scholarly<br>> judges. The article purports to decode, at last, [...]
2019-05-20T22:45:17-04:00LIBLICENSEhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;e5f2cac1.1905Knowledge Unlatched Financial Results 2018http://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;5279b370.1905
From: Sven from Knowledge Unlatched &lt;<br>sven.fund@knowledge-unlatched-45b49c388651.intercom-mail.com&gt;<br>Date: Mon, 20 May 2019 22:40:02 -0400<br><br>Dear libraries and publishers around the world,<br><br>I promised you in my message last Fall that Knowledge Unlatched will always<br>strive to be transparent in order to honor the trust we are enjoying from<br>all of you. So today I am writing to share KU’s financial results for the<br>calendar year 2018 (which is also our fiscal year) with you all, as we have<br>received them just yesterday. [...]
2019-05-20T22:52:46-04:00LIBLICENSEhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;5279b370.1905DOAJ’s open letter to SSHA communities about Plan Shttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;752fcb79.1905
From: Saskia de Vries &lt;s.c.j.devries@sampan.eu&gt;<br>Date: Mon, 20 May 2019 10:07:35 +0000<br><br>Hi all,<br><br>An interesting open letter from DOAJ in response to a Working Paper of the<br>Royal Historical Society, ‘*Wellcome Trust, Medical History/Humanities &amp;<br>Plan S’*:<br><br>https://blog.doaj.org/2019/05/16/doajs-open-letter-to-ssha-communities-about-plan-s/<br><br>Saskia<br><br>[image: emailsig3_Sampan]
2019-05-20T22:48:09-04:00LIBLICENSEhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;752fcb79.1905Re: Unavailable in your country messages?http://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;a9615c28.1905
From: &quot;Miller, Jaimie&quot; &lt;jaimie.miller@ubc.ca&gt;<br>Date: Mon, 20 May 2019 22:17:33 +0000<br><br>Hello Roën<br><br>Yes we have seen this often enough.<br><br>There appear to be territoriality agreements on particular ebook titles.<br><br>Also a small number of (mostly trade) publishers appear to have an<br>exclusive ebook distribution agreement (for Canada) with a platform that<br>primarily serves public libraries.<br><br>I have quite a few examples. I’d be glad to discuss details off-list if you<br>are interested. [...]
2019-05-20T22:44:09-04:00LIBLICENSEhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;a9615c28.1905Re: Unavailable in your country messages?http://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;ec2bbcce.1905
From: &quot;Lyon, Meredith K&quot; &lt;meredith.lyon@csun.edu&gt;<br>Date: Mon, 20 May 2019 19:34:31 +0000<br><br>I have seen this when ordering ebooks on Gobi. It’s annoying because the<br>status shows as “available”, but the library availability shows as<br>“unavailable in your country”. I have also been unsuccessful in getting<br>answers.<br><br>-Meredith<br><br>Meredith Lyon<br><br>Ordering/Receiving Supervisor<br><br>Oviatt Library/8328<br><br>California State University Northridge<br><br>18111 Nordhoff St. [...]
2019-05-20T22:42:51-04:00LIBLICENSEhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;ec2bbcce.1905Controversial scholarship and gold OA in the humanitieshttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;b71fd241.1905
From: &quot;Jim O'Donnell&quot; &lt;jod@asu.edu&gt;<br>Date: Fri, 17 May 2019 21:56:34 -0700<br><br>An article published three weeks ago in the peer-reviewed Taylor and<br>Francis journal *Romance Studies* is taking heavy fire from scholarly<br>judges. The article purports to decode, at last, the famous Voynich<br>manuscript held by Yale (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript),<br>famous for appearing to be a medieval manuscript in a script and a language<br>so far resistant to all dis-encryption and interpretation. [...]
2019-05-19T14:57:48-04:00LIBLICENSEhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;b71fd241.1905Unavailable in your country messages?http://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;1b5d81e5.1905
From: Roen Janyk &lt;RJanyk@okanagan.bc.ca&gt;<br>Date: Fri, 17 May 2019 21:41:32 +0000<br><br>Hi all,<br><br>I am wondering if anyone else, particularly those from non-US countries,<br>have experienced the ‘unavailable in your country’ message when trying to<br>purchase specific e-book titles. We are seeing this more and more<br>frequently and are wondering if anyone else has been noticing this as well.<br>We have contacted a number of vendors and publishers and have not been able<br>to get any straight answers. I posed the question at an ER&amp;L session a<br>couple of years ago and the rep from Springer and two US-based librarians<br> [...]
2019-05-19T14:55:53-04:00LIBLICENSEhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;1b5d81e5.1905Upcoming NISO Educational Event, May 22, 2019!http://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;b83c79ad.1905
From: NISO Announce &lt;niso-announce@niso.org&gt;<br>Date: Fri, 17 May 2019 11:06:57 -0400<br><br>Don’t Miss This Upcoming NISO Educational Event, May 22, 2019!<br><br>Register now to hear a variety of stakeholder perspectives on the<br>intricacies of sharing scholarly output in the digital workflows of today.<br><br>*Blurred Boundaries: Intellectual Property and Networked Sharing of Content<br>&lt;https://www.niso.org/events/2019/05/blurred-boundaries-intellectual-property-and-networked-sharing-content&gt;*<br><br>*NISO Virtual Conference, Wednesday, May 22, 12:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.<br>(Eastern Time)* [...]
2019-05-19T14:54:58-04:00LIBLICENSEhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;b83c79ad.1905Enter to win a trip to the 2019 Charleston Conferencehttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;4eb8616c.1905
From: Olivia Butze &lt;Olivia.Butze@sagepub.com&gt;<br>Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 20:56:07 +0000<br><br>Enter to win a trip to the 2019 Charleston Conference<br><br>SAGE Publishing and The Charleston Conference recently opened their 2019<br>Charleston Conference Photo Contest to all US and Canada librarians. One<br>winner will receive registration and a travel stipend to the 2019<br>Conference in November and 5 others will receive Amazon gift cards. This<br>year's theme is &quot;Show us how your library connects with students and<br>faculty beyond library walls.&quot; To learn more and enter, visit here:<br>http://bit.ly/2Yrn9y2 [...]
2019-05-17T00:20:19-04:00LIBLICENSEhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;4eb8616c.1905Charleston Trendspotting Initiativehttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;f7b43517.1905
From: Nicola Poser &lt;nposer@redlink.com&gt;<br>Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 13:32:04 -0400<br><br>**apologies for cross-posting**<br><br>As part of the 41st Annual Meeting, the Society for Scholarly Publishing<br>(SSP) will offer a pre-meeting seminar, hosted by *Against the Grain (ATG) *and<br>the Charleston Conference entitled, *Charleston Trendspotting Initiative:<br>Forecasting Changes on the Horizon of Scholarly *Communication, on<br>Wednesday, May 29, 2019 at 8:30 AM PST. [...]
2019-05-16T14:58:05-04:00LIBLICENSEhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;f7b43517.1905Knowledge Ulatched and Open Research Library Launchhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;3dc75214.1905
From: Ann Shumelda Okerson &lt;aokerson@gmail.com &lt;asokerson@gmail.com&gt;&gt;<br>Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 08:58:33 -0400<br><br>&quot;Around 15,000 to 20,000 books have been published Open Access worldwide to<br>date, freely available to users all over the world, and about 4,000 more<br>are added every year. Currently these titles are offered for use by<br>scientists on numerous different publishing and distribution websites. The<br>aim of this new initiative is to combine all available book content under<br>one search and hosting interface and to ensure that the provision of<br>corresponding catalogue data is made available to library systems. The<br>hosting of all book content is [...]
2019-05-16T14:56:52-04:00LIBLICENSEhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;3dc75214.1905COUNTER Foundation Class 6 and updated Friendly Guidehttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;8d7b5c7.1905
From: Lorraine Estelle &lt;lorraine.estelle@counterusage.org&gt;<br>Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 07:57:57 +0000<br><br>Dear Colleagues<br><br>Our latest online tutorial COUNTER Foundation Class 6<br>&lt;https://youtu.be/dtn8LeJRmqU&gt; explains how to use the new database<br>reports and the key metrics for analyzing full-text databases and A&amp;I<br>databases.<br><br>We are preparing a new Foundation Class on Journal Reports and aim to have<br>it available at the end of this month. If there are any other themes or<br>subjects that you would like us to cover in subsequent Foundation Classes,<br>please do let me know. [...]
2019-05-16T14:56:05-04:00LIBLICENSEhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;8d7b5c7.1905Re: Survey Request: Review of Recurring Expenseshttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;6d53637e.1905
From: &quot;Blackman, Christine&quot; &lt;cblackma@williams.edu&gt;<br>Date: Wed, 15 May 2019 20:37:30 -0400<br><br>Yes, I will here on the list and directly with anyone who fills out the<br>survey if they’d like it.<br><br>Best,<br>Chris<br><br>Christine W. Blackman (Chris)<br>Catalog Librarian<br>Williams Libraries &lt;https://library.williams.edu/&gt;<br>(413) 597-4403<br>honorific: Ms.<br>pronouns: she/her/hers<br><br>On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 7:20 PM LIBLICENSE &lt;liblicense@gmail.com&gt; wrote:<br><br>&gt; From: &quot;Ginther, Clara (clara.ginther@uni-graz.at)&quot; &lt;<br>&gt; clara.ginther@uni-graz.at&gt;<br>&gt; Date: Wed, 15 May 2019 07:47:47 +0000<br>&gt;<br>&gt; Dear Christine,<br>&gt;<br>&gt;<br>&gt;<br>&gt; Could you share the results of the survey? It would be very insightful.<br>&gt;<br>&gt;<br>&gt;<br>> [...]
2019-05-15T21:33:19-04:00LIBLICENSEhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;6d53637e.1905Survey: Library Teaching Anxietyhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;d30c68a3.1905
From: Becky Thoms &lt;becky.thoms@usu.edu&gt;<br>Date: Wed, 15 May 2019 14:35:16 +0000<br><br>Kacy Lundstrom, Head of Learning &amp; Engagement, and Britt Fagerheim,<br>Reference &amp; Instruction Librarian at Utah State University (IRB Exempt -<br>#9931) invite you to participate in a study of library teaching anxiety.<br>Your participation will involve completing an online survey, which is<br>expected to take approximately 15 minutes. Your participation is entirely<br>voluntary. [...]
2019-05-15T19:12:14-04:00LIBLICENSEhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;d30c68a3.1905Re: Survey Request: Review of Recurring Expenseshttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;5a154df6.1905
From: &quot;Ginther, Clara (clara.ginther@uni-graz.at)&quot; &lt;<br>clara.ginther@uni-graz.at&gt;<br>Date: Wed, 15 May 2019 07:47:47 +0000<br><br>Dear Christine,<br><br>Could you share the results of the survey? It would be very insightful.<br><br>Best regards,<br><br>Clara Ginther
2019-05-15T19:11:21-04:00LIBLICENSEhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;5a154df6.1905Anthropology discipline explores a new open access modelhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;e2ca2537.1905
From: Ann Shumelda Okerson &lt;aokerson@gmail.com &lt;asokerson@gmail.com&gt;&gt;<br>Date: Tue, 14 May 2019 22:39:26 -0400<br><br>*&quot;Publishers, librarians, research funders, and leaders from across the<br>field of anthropology — including journal editors and representatives of<br>the major Anglophone anthropological societies of both Europe and North<br>America — gathered at MIT on April 24 for an invitational workshop focused<br>on a sea change for everyone who attended: moving the discipline’s journals<br>to an open-access (OA) model. **Currently, the expense of academic<br>publishing creates significant barriers to the broad dissemination of<br>scholarly findings. The goal of the workshop was to consider a new model<br>for [...]
2019-05-14T22:46:21-04:00LIBLICENSEhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;e2ca2537.1905Survey Request: Review of Recurring Expenseshttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;c3473f91.1905
From: &quot;Blackman, Christine&quot; &lt;cblackma@williams.edu&gt;<br>Date: Tue, 14 May 2019 17:34:41 -0400<br><br>Hello all,<br><br>Williams Libraries is engaged in a process of strategic planning. We are<br>examining the manner in which we manage our recurring collections expenses.<br><br>We would be grateful if you would respond to this brief survey<br>&lt;https://forms.gle/Q81ncCj9VjTANRr19&gt; on your procedures for reviewing<br>subscriptions to electronic resources. If you are not the right person to<br>respond, please forward to appropriate colleagues. [...]
2019-05-14T19:46:37-04:00LIBLICENSEhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;c3473f91.1905European University Association (EUA) Releases 2019 Big Deals Survey Reporthttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;33976898.1905
From: Gary Price &lt;gprice@gmail.com&gt;<br>Date: Tue, May 14, 2019 at 11:14 AM<br><br>via infoDOCKET...<br><br>From EUA<br><br>&quot;The Second EUA Big Deals Survey Report is an updated mapping of major<br>scholarly publishing contracts in Europe.<br><br>Conducted in 2017-2018, the report gathers data from 31 consortia<br>covering an unprecedented 167 contracts with five major publishers:<br>Elsevier, Springer Nature, Taylor &amp; Francis, Wiley and American<br>Chemical Society. Readers will discover that the total costs reported<br>by the participating consortia exceed one billion euros for<br>periodicals, databases, e-books and other resources – mainly to the<br>benefit of large, commercial scholarly publishers. [...]
2019-05-14T19:45:47-04:00LIBLICENSEhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;33976898.1905Final Call for Papers for WBIMLC 2019: Call for Papers due May 20th 2019.http://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;750f57f5.1905
From: &quot;Padraig.Kirby&quot; &lt;Padraig.Kirby@lit.ie&gt;<br>Date: Thu, 9 May 2019 14:56:56 +0000<br><br>Apologies for Cross Posting. Please see Final Call for Papers for WBIMLC<br>2019, Bihać, Bosnia &amp; Herzegovina, June 20th-21st 2019. Call for papers<br>deadline: *20th May 2019.*<br><br>*WESTERN BALKAN INFORMATION AND MEDIA LITERACY CONFERENCE** 2019.*<br><br>*THEME: FREEDOM, ACCURACY and TRUTH. *<br><br>*Dates: **J**une* *20th**-**21st** 201**9*, *Hotel Opal, Bihać, Bosnia &amp;<br>Herzegovina**.* [...]
2019-05-09T19:09:35-04:00LIBLICENSEhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;750f57f5.1905Springer Nature encourages OA transitionhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;7e2a1848.1905
From: Ann Shumelda Okerson &lt;aokerson@gmail.com &lt;asokerson@gmail.com&gt;&gt;<br>Date: Thu, 9 May 2019 10:16:51 -0400<br><br>Springer wants to encourage publishers to move from being passive enablers<br>of open access to being active drivers of the transition to open access.&quot;<br>See its &quot;Requirements for a New Publishing Standard...&quot;<br><br>https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/16705468/data/v2
2019-05-09T19:07:20-04:00LIBLICENSEhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;7e2a1848.1905May 2019 NISO Educational Events — Coming Up Soon!http://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;14128a77.1905
From: NISO Announce &lt;niso-announce@niso.org&gt;<br>Date: Wed, 8 May 2019 11:27:06 -0400<br><br>Upcoming NISO Educational Events, May 2019<br><br>Tune in for these upcoming NISO educational events in May! A single<br>registration allows you to gather an unlimited number of staff in a<br>conference or classroom setting to listen in to leaders in the profession.<br><br>Even if staff is unable to attend the live broadcast due to scheduling<br>conflicts or travel, links to the archived recording are sent within 24-48<br>hours of the event to maximize the value of your training dollars. [...]
2019-05-09T19:06:25-04:00LIBLICENSEhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;14128a77.1905Lynda.com/LinkedIn Learning licensehttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;481ad274.1905
From: Mark Winek &lt;mdw65@georgetown.edu&gt;<br>Date: Tue, 7 May 2019 12:03:53 -0400<br><br>Greetings, Collective Wisdom!<br><br>I'm interested to learn more about the terms under which other parties<br>(especially academic institutions) license access to Lynda.com/LinkedIn<br>Learning. Do you have a site license with terms that are geared toward<br>academic institutions, or do you find yourself negotiating around<br>LinkedIn's standard subscription agreement, Data Processing Agreement, User<br>Agreement, and Privacy Policy? [...]
2019-05-08T01:20:46-04:00LIBLICENSEhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;481ad274.1905Open-source Bazaar: Ensuring independent, open infrastructure in the age of acquisitionshttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;af9f26a4.1905
From: Emily Packer &lt;e.packer@elifesciences.org&gt;<br>Date: Tue, 7 May 2019 15:55:03 +0100<br><br>[With apologies for cross-posting]<br><br>Hi All,<br><br>I thought you might be interested to hear about this pre-conference<br>seminar, taking place ahead of the SSP Annual Meeting in San Diego on<br>Wednesday, May 29.<br><br>The session is entitled 'Open-source Bazaar: Owned by the community,<br>ensuring independent, open infrastructure in the age of acquisitions'. [...]
2019-05-08T01:19:55-04:00LIBLICENSEhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;af9f26a4.1905Job Posting Final Notice: Digital Resources Management Librarian at Illinois Institute of Technologyhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;6a13e4d1.1905
From: Devin Savage &lt;dsavage@iit.edu&gt;<br>Date: Tue, 7 May 2019 09:15:35 -0500<br><br>Cross-listed, apologies in advance for duplication.<br><br>This is the last call for applications for the Digital Resources Management<br>Librarian position at the Paul V. Galvin Library at the Illinois Institute<br>of Technology (IIT) in Chicago, Illinois. A final review of applications<br>will be begin very soon. [...]
2019-05-08T01:18:56-04:00LIBLICENSEhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;6a13e4d1.1905Re: Emerging Big Deal challenges: a questionhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;187707da.1905
From: Elizabeth Leonard &lt;elizabeth.leonard@shu.edu&gt;<br>Date: Tue, 7 May 2019 12:50:44 +0000<br><br>Except she isn’t really publishing, is she? It’s more of a global<br>aggregation process.<br><br>Elizabeth Leonard<br><br>Assistant Dean for Information Technologies and Collections Services<br><br>University Libraries<br><br>Seton Hall University<br><br>400 South Orange Avenue<br><br>South Orange, NJ 07079<br><br>973-761-9445<br><br>From: &quot;Smith, Kevin L&quot; &lt;klsmith12@ku.edu&gt;<br><br>Date: Mon, 6 May 2019 12:34:52 +0000<br><br>I think Planetary Librarian is the wrong term for Elbakyan. She does not<br>perform many of the functions of a professional librarian, as far as I can<br>tell. If we need to give her a title, Planetary Publisher might [...]
2019-05-08T01:17:36-04:00LIBLICENSEhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;187707da.1905Contract posting: Outreach Manager for the Coalition for Seamless Accesshttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;cc2f267.1905
From: Heather Flanagan &lt;heather@ra21.org&gt;<br>Date: Mon, May 6, 2019 at 2:34 PM<br><br>Announcing an exciting opportunity to be involved in the beta service being<br>developed out of RA21’s recommendations:<br><br>*Outreach Manager (Service Providers) - at 0.4 FTE for the first six months<br>(July – Dec 2019)*<br>The full description for this role is provided on the RA21 website (<br>https://ra21.org/index.php/2019/05/06/beta-phase-recruitment-outreach-manager/<br>). [...]
2019-05-06T23:49:24-04:00LIBLICENSEhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;cc2f267.1905Flash Call for Discussants HIRMEOS Workshop , 2June Marseillehttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;ba4666a1.1905
From: &quot;Bertino, Andrea&quot; &lt;bertino@sub.uni-goettingen.de&gt;<br>Date: Mon, 6 May 2019 12:47:26 +0000<br><br>*Flash Call for Discussants*<br><br>*HIRMEOS Final Workshop Shaping new Ways to open the Book, Marseille, 2<br>June 2019*<br><br>The HIRMEOS project is looking for members of the research community and<br>scholarly communication experts who are interested in contributing to its<br>workshop *Shaping new Ways to Open the Book* by participating as a<br>discussant. *The HIRMEOS consortium will cover travel and accommodation<br>costs of the selected participants.* [...]
2019-05-06T23:46:06-04:00LIBLICENSEhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;ba4666a1.1905BISG Releases White Paper on Open Access Ebook Usagehttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;742f0f52.1905
From: Charles Watkinson &lt;watkinc@umich.edu&gt;<br>Date: Mon, 6 May 2019 07:20:27 -0400<br><br>Perhaps of interest to the list:<br><br>The Book Industry Study Group today released a white paper (written by<br>Brian O'Leary and Kevin Hawkins) on the issues surrounding the gathering<br>and analysis open access ebook usage data.<br><br>https://bisg.org/news/449950/BISG-Releases-White-Paper-on-Open-Access-Ebook-Usage.htm<br><br>The paper is based on a year of consultation and community conversation<br>supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. It recommends the creation of<br>a &quot;data trust&quot; that can help publishers, funders, and authors tell the<br>story of impact and engagement with the OA books they publish. [...]
2019-05-06T23:41:35-04:00LIBLICENSEhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;742f0f52.1905Re: Emerging Big Deal challenges: a questionhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;7003ae03.1905
From: Brian Simboli &lt;brs4@lehigh.edu&gt;<br>Date: Mon, 6 May 2019 13:45:12 -0400<br><br>Willing to be disabused, but I doubt anyone knows enough to estimate<br>reliably how much researchers will use SciHub to satisfy their article<br>demand in the wake of a Big Deal cancellation. Maybe there is enough data<br>(survey or otherwise) for back of the envelope cancellations, but probably<br>not enough reliability there to say for sure. [...]
2019-05-06T23:47:46-04:00LIBLICENSEhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;7003ae03.1905Re: Emerging Big Deal challenges: a questionhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;beea060e.1905
From: &quot;Smith, Kevin L&quot; &lt;klsmith12@ku.edu&gt;<br>Date: Mon, 6 May 2019 12:34:52 +0000<br><br>I think Planetary Librarian is the wrong term for Elbakyan. She does not<br>perform many of the functions of a professional librarian, as far as I can<br>tell. If we need to give her a title, Planetary Publisher might be more<br>accurate, and would capture the domain in which she really is competing<br>and, arguably, sowing chaos. [...]
2019-05-06T23:42:51-04:00LIBLICENSEhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;beea060e.1905Re: Emerging Big Deal challenges: a questionhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;75e64dd4.1905
From: JJE Esposito &lt;jjohneman@gmail.com&gt;<br>Date: Sun, 5 May 2019 13:35:32 -0400<br><br>But how about the (much bigger) issue of Sci-Hub and piracy in general?<br>None of the current negotiations would be going the way they are without<br>Planetary Librarian Alexandra Elbakyan.<br><br>Joe Esposito<br><br>On Sun, May 5, 2019 at 1:13 PM LIBLICENSE &lt;liblicense@gmail.com&gt; wrote:<br><br>&gt; From: Brian Simboli &lt;brs4@lehigh.edu&gt;<br>&gt; Date: Fri, 3 May 2019 10:03:24 -0400<br>&gt;<br>&gt; I'm trying to tease out how much the emergent challenges to the Big Deal<br>&gt; model are motivated by open access concerns, as opposed to inflationary<br>> pricing concerns. And what [...]
2019-05-05T13:45:02-04:00LIBLICENSEhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;75e64dd4.1905Subject: São Paulo Statement on Open Access - Issued May 2http://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;71859190.1905
From: Colin Steele &lt;Colin.Steele@anu.edu.au&gt;<br>Date: Sat, May 4, 2019 at 7:27 PM<br><br>https://www.coalition-s.org/sao-paulo-statement-on-open-access/<br><br>São Paulo Statement on Open Access<br><br>Joint Declaration by the African Open Science Platform, AmeliCA,<br>cOAlition S, OA2020, and SciELO São Paulo, 1 May 2019 The<br>representatives of African Open Science Platform, AmeLICA, cOAlition<br>S, OA2020, and SciELO – five of the major worldwide Open Access<br>initiatives – met on 1 May 2019 during the annual meeting of the<br>Global Research Council in São Paulo, Brazil. They are united in their<br>common mission of making knowledge available and accessible wherever<br>it can have the greatest impact and [...]
2019-05-05T13:05:59-04:00LIBLICENSEhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;71859190.1905EDUC: Register for NASIG Preconferences!http://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;1eef3805.1905
From: &quot;publicist@nasig.org&quot; &lt;publicist@nasig.org&gt;<br>Date: Fri, 3 May 2019 14:50:34 -0400<br><br>NASIG has an exciting line up of preconferences<br>&lt;http://www.nasig.org/site_page.cfm?pk_association_webpage_menu=700&amp;pk_association_webpage=15942&gt;<br>this year that you might have missed if you registered early. But, it's<br>not too late to sign up! All you need to do is click through the registration<br>link &lt;http://www.nasig.org/site_event_detail.cfm?pk_association_event=18027&gt;<br>and<br>select one of our five exciting options. [...]
2019-05-05T13:04:01-04:00LIBLICENSEhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;1eef3805.1905Re: Required language, prohibited clauseshttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;11ec9656.1905
From: Freeda Brook &lt;fbrook@luther.edu&gt;<br>Date: Fri, 3 May 2019 15:20:50 -0500<br><br>I really like this article that goes over various aspects of a license<br>agreement and what to look for (or look out for):<br><br>Crawford, Amy R. 2008. “Licensing and Negotiations for Electronic<br>Content.” *Resource<br>Sharing &amp; Information Networks* 19 (1–2): 15–38.<br><br>Freeda Brook, MLIS/MPA<br>Acquisitions and Resource Management Librarian<br>Preus Library, Luther College<br>700 College Dr.<br>Decorah, IA 52101 [...]
2019-05-05T13:05:03-04:00LIBLICENSEhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;11ec9656.1905Emerging Big Deal challenges: a questionhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;4237b06.1905
From: Brian Simboli &lt;brs4@lehigh.edu&gt;<br>Date: Fri, 3 May 2019 10:03:24 -0400<br><br>I'm trying to tease out how much the emergent challenges to the Big Deal<br>model are motivated by open access concerns, as opposed to inflationary<br>pricing concerns. And what the perceived interrelationship of these two<br>factors is.<br><br>Brian Simboli
2019-05-05T13:01:53-04:00LIBLICENSEhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;4237b06.1905UMass Amherst Libraries Support UC System's Termination of Elsevier Contracthttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;be82758a.1905
From: Sally Krash &lt;krash@umass.edu&gt;<br>Date: Fri, 3 May 2019 12:27:26 +0000<br><br>Hi all,<br><br>The University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries joins its colleagues in<br>stating support for UC's break-up with Elsevier.<br><br>https://www.library.umass.edu/news/uc-support-statement/<br><br>Sally Krash<br><br>Associate Dean for Content and Discovery<br><br>UMass Amherst Libraries<br><br>413-545-6865<br><br>krash@umass.edu<br><br>https://works.bepress.com/sallykrash/
2019-05-05T13:00:44-04:00LIBLICENSEhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;be82758a.1905Re: Guardian newspaper breaks evenhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;b08f383e.1905
From: Velterop &lt;velterop@gmail.com&gt;<br>Date: Fri, 3 May 2019 08:49:55 +0200<br><br>Apart from that, The Guardian's service is very much focussed on readers,<br>whereas science publishers' services are arguably more focussed on authors<br>than on readers. There's truth in the adage &quot;publish or perish&quot;, which, at<br>least for now, means to publish in formal journals (as opposed to informal<br>venues like preprint platforms). That may change, if DORA and other<br>initiatives in that vein are successful, but it will take a long while, and<br>the adage &quot;read or rot&quot; is unlikely ever to remove the pressure on<br>researchers that's put on [...]
2019-05-05T12:59:46-04:00LIBLICENSEhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;b08f383e.1905OASPA seminar - San Diego, May 29http://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;6cbbe565.1905
From: Bernie Folan &lt;bernie.folan@oaspa.org&gt;<br>Date: Thu, 2 May 2019 18:29:29 +0200<br><br>**With apologies for cross posting**<br><br>OASPA is pleased to announce a forthcoming event in San Diego as part of<br>the SSP annual conference pre-meeting seminar series. The seminar<br>entitled &quot;Fact<br>or Fiction? OASPA Lifts the Lid on Open Access Publishing&quot; aims to deepen<br>understanding of how open access publishing is approached by many different<br>parties and tackle some enduring areas of open access concern and confusion. [...]
2019-05-02T22:58:27-04:00LIBLICENSEhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;6cbbe565.1905McGraw-Hill/Cengage mergerhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;757effe6.1905
From: Ann Shumelda Okerson &lt;aokerson@gmail.com &lt;asokerson@gmail.com&gt;&gt;<br>Date: Thu, 2 May 2019 10:26:15 -0400<br><br>The textbook publishing business on Wednesday read of the merger announced<br>between two of the three dominant textbook publishing companies: Cengage<br>and McGraw-Hill. Here are a few citations; there are many more, plus much<br>commentary.<br><br>https://www.edsurge.com/news/2019-05-01-cengage-mcgraw-hill<br>-agree-to-merge-to-become-2nd-biggest-us-textbook-publisher<br><br>https://www.insidehighered.com/digital-learning/article/2019/05/02/cengage-and-mcgraw-hill-merge<br><br>https://finance.yahoo.com/news/cengage-mcgraw-hill-merge-providing-110000392.html<br><br>https://www.chronicle.com/article/Planned-Merger-of-Cengage-and/246224?cid=at
2019-05-02T22:54:37-04:00LIBLICENSEhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;757effe6.1905UKSG 2020 Call For Topicshttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;37f9c19b.1905
From: Bev Acreman &lt;Bev@uksg.org&gt;<br>Date: Thu, 2 May 2019 13:05:42 +0000<br><br>**with apologies for cross-posting**<br><br>The UKSG Committee invites you to suggest topics and speakers for our 2020<br>Annual Conference, to be held in Brighton from Monday 30th March to<br>Wednesday 1st April 2020.<br><br>The conference attracts delegates from across the global knowledge<br>community, including librarians, publishers and intermediaries. It<br>provides a much-respected forum for discussing trends, showcasing<br>initiatives, finding out about current practice across sectors, and<br>connecting with other professionals. [...]
2019-05-02T22:51:19-04:00LIBLICENSEhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;37f9c19b.1905Re: Guardian newspaper breaks evenhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;237c0c0a.1905
From: Rick Anderson &lt;rick.anderson@utah.edu&gt;<br>Date: Thu, 2 May 2019 08:07:43 +0000<br><br>Kent, I think the big difference here is that the “supporters” are not<br>actually subscribers. You don’t have to subscribe to the Guardian to have<br>full online access to the content – it’s free. In other words, you’re right<br>that it’s a “recurring revenue model based on readers paying,” but it’s not<br>a revenue model based on readers having to pay in order to have access.<br>It’s based on readers paying voluntarily. [...]
2019-05-02T22:49:39-04:00LIBLICENSEhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;237c0c0a.1905Re: Guardian newspaper breaks evenhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;efb5fde5.1905
From: &quot;Merkel-Sobotta, Eric&quot; &lt;Eric.Merkel-Sobotta@degruyter.com&gt;<br>Date: Thu, 2 May 2019 06:53:57 +0000<br><br>And let’s not forget that one year of breaking even (after many, many years<br>of not doing so), does not guarantee continued financial success.<br><br>*Eric*<br><br>From: Kent Anderson &lt;kanderson@redlink.com&gt;<br><br>Date: Wed, 1 May 2019 23:07:31 -0400<br><br>&quot;The Guardian now has over 655,000 monthly paying supporters, across<br>subscribers, recurring contributors and members.” [...]
2019-05-02T22:48:18-04:00LIBLICENSEhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;efb5fde5.1905Re: Guardian newspaper breaks evenhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;c2bd9bfd.1905
From: Kent Anderson &lt;kanderson@redlink.com&gt;<br>Date: Wed, 1 May 2019 23:07:31 -0400<br><br>&quot;The Guardian now has over 655,000 monthly paying supporters, across<br>subscribers, recurring contributors and members.”<br><br>That’s a recurring revenue model based on readers paying. It involved a<br>lot of subscribers.<br><br>I think this confirms that readers and users are sensible, and know that to<br>keep something they like alive, they have to pay for it. Why that lesson<br>isn’t one OA embraces is at the heart of your question. Would that still<br>be OA? Or just a subscription/donation/membership and freemium model? [...]
2019-05-02T01:00:18-04:00LIBLICENSEhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;c2bd9bfd.1905Guardian newspaper breaks evenhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;b457e41a.1905
N.B.: A successful open access strategy?
2019-05-01T21:01:04-04:00LIBLICENSEhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;b457e41a.1905Of possible interest- sign of the timeshttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;eb0efb7f.1905
From: Amy Schuler &lt;schulera@caryinstitute.org&gt;<br>Date: Wed, May 1, 2019 at 12:30 PM<br><br>Obvious parallels here to visual and performing arts, literature, music,<br>data, and information of all other types; all too easily packaged up as<br>&quot;content&quot; to be bought and sold.<br><br>I will tell you another phrase that gives me the creeps: &quot;value added&quot;.<br><br>&quot;I think my big freakout these days is about how “cinema” morphed into<br>“content.” The word “content” gives me terrible chills down my spine.&quot; [...]
2019-05-01T20:40:42-04:00LIBLICENSEhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;eb0efb7f.1905Free webinar update on the SPA OPS projecthttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;cc37f434.1905
From: &lt;alicia.wise@informationpower.co.uk&gt;<br>Date: Wed, 1 May 2019 16:55:38 +0100<br><br>Hello everyone,<br><br>We’re now past the midway point on the Society Publishers Accelerating Open<br>access and Plan S (SPA OPS) project, and will be doing a free webinar<br>update on 14 May at 3pm UK time for anyone interested in how we are getting<br>on. You can register here, and there are about 150 spaces left:<br>https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/stakeholder-forum-for-learned-society-publishers-tickets-59894751815 [...]
2019-05-01T20:38:48-04:00LIBLICENSEhttp://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;cc37f434.1905